Will Google Glass make baseball better?

There’s a new app for baseball fans with Google Glass that aims to enhance the live-game experience. It lets you watch from the bleachers with all the information you have access to on a broadcast:

Without having worn a Google Glass, it’s hard to say whether the app would tarnish a night at the ballpark in some way, or jeopardize the romance or something. But at the very least, it certainly looks cool and gives more people access to more information, which is generally a good thing.

Since we’re on the topic, though: What about ways to incorporate Google Glass on the field? Oakland A’s pitchers Sean Doolittle and Ryan Cook recently became MLB’s first Google Glass Explorers, but for a variety of reasons, it seems unlikely pitchers will be allowed to wear Google Glasses on the mound anytime soon.

It’d be pretty sweet if they could though, right? Baseball fans presumably want to see the game played at the best level humanly possible, and this human invention could help pitchers instantly understand batter tendencies, and vice versa.

It won’t happen anytime soon, even if players on both sides typically have access to all the same information just a few steps away from the field between innings. But there’s not much precedent for new technologies that can actually aid players on the field, so it’d be a complicated thing to implement.

On the other hand, baseball is already moving toward allowing umpires better and faster access to technology, because umpires are not competing against anybody but working to ensure that the game is played fairly and that all the calls are as accurate as possible. Seems like outfitting the umps with Google Glass might make for a nice compromise between those howling for robot umpires and those who appreciate the human element.

New technology could benefit fans of the game and perhaps the game itself.

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